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marshburn. i'm a private investigainvestig. i'm here to try to find kelli bordeaux and i think you can help me. >> his strategy was simple, to get nick holbert to think he was an alibi. >> it was basically to say i'm an angel, let me help you. >> help him how, though? >> to get him to see the light. >> you're telling nick you're going to prove that he didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of kelli bordeaux. >> uh-huh. >> and he buys that? >> hook, line and sinker. >> so now the bounty hunter and the prime suspect talked. over the next few months, marshburn gradually held nick holbert's confidence, getting him to gradually tell him what happened to kelli bordeaux. >> i had to get into his mind and find out what he was about. >> did you think he was just going to confess to you? >> no.
it's closed now, just a decrepit old shack with only the weeds for company. the good times are long gone, back when it was a watering hole for some of the soldiers based on nearby fort bragg. famous for billiards, beer and karaoke, it was once a popular little pub called froggy bottoms, and where it was private first class kelli bordeaux planned to unwind back on friday the 13th, 2012. kelli was just 23, a mere 5'1" and barely 100 pounds. but she could hold her own with anybody. >> girl power indeed. >> reporter: to her older siblings, matt and olivia, kelli was always the perfect combination of tough and sweet. >> bouncy, bubbly and happy,
remember that tv interview nick holbert did? marshburn saw it, too. >> when i'm watching him, it was like, dude, i can tell you're lying. he did it. he knows where she's at. he killed her. >> and marshburn was also convinced he could find kelli bordeaux. operating on his own time and own dime, marshburn started carefully researching the details of kelli's disappearance. >> i don't know what got into me to do it, i just did it. >> to bring some answers to her family. >> yeah. i loved doing it. i loved helping the family out. >> reporter: marshburn was convinced holbert had buried kelli's body in the thick brush near fayetteville. >> how daunting of a task was it? >> it's like throwing a rock a bit bigger than this, throwing
him the primary person of interest. >> has her husband been questioned by detectives? >> we've had conversation with mr. bordeaux. >> police also needed to have a conversation with kelli's boyfriend, justin thompson. little did they know that justin had a huge new lead waiting for them about the night kelli disappeared. coming up -- >> you get vibes from people sometimes. i could see it. it was weird. >> a new possible suspect. >> he is the last person that is seen with kelli. that was very concerning to us. >> why something in his past would trigger even more alarm bells. >> it certainly was a red flag. >> when "deep in the woods" continues. woods" continues. and one that's forever wild. but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure.
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would not believe, because we went two years nonstop, kelli, kelli, kelli, kelli. >> do you think this case ever would have been solved without you? >> no. i don't think that nick would have ever told anyone, unless they were his friend. but he did tell me. >> for the family of kelli bordeaux, the loss, the pain, the sorry never goes away. but david marshburn at least gave them a chance to heal. >> he ended a suffering for my family, where we're sitting here agonizing for these last two years. he was the one that was able to come in and end that for us and to make it to where you can try to start rebuilding and doing things that will make kelli proud and to live your life. >> the family also had something for david marshburn, a very special gift from kelli. >> kelli's dog tags, which, that's a great honor in itself. >> this is a very important thing. >> yeah.
confessed so they took a ride to froggy bottoms back to where it all began. >> i said, look, nick, you're fixing to be indicted on this. they evidently got evidence. you need to tell me what happened. the middle you're probably not sure, it's fuzzy, you got tunnel vision. the end is where we need to get to. that's where i need to be. you need to get me to where kelli is at. i'll leave you right here and you think about it and i'll wait as long as you need me to. he didn't say a word. nothing. >> this must have been a powerful moment between you two. >> it was. he was standing there just looking straight down. it feels like he's imaging all this stuff of what went on. >> did you feel like he was finally going to reveal to you?
>> police rushed to the scene and soon, detective jeff locklear was interrogating holbert on camera. >> where do you want me to start, at the very beginning? >> holbert told the whole, horrible story, how he took kelli to the bar and they hung out. then later, said holbert, someone there told kelli about his prior sex offense. she got upset and swore at him in the empty parking lot. >> and so i just snapped and zoned out and hit her, knocked her out. >> holbert said he took kelli to his camp site, where she woke up and started screaming. >> and i hit her again, knocked her out again. and i mean, she was dead. >> holbert says he then took kelli's body deep into the woods and buried her. >> are you okay with going back there? >> i don't know, i don't really want to. >> holbert was then taken downtown and arrested. >> this morning, detectives with the fayetteville police department homicide unit
>> detectives say information in this case keeps pointing them to look in this area near where she was last seen. >> kelli bordeaux had been missing some 72 hours. the chances of finding her were growing slimmer by the day. >> investigators have combed through just about every area here in fayetteville as well as in cumberland county. >> 600 miles away in florida, kelli's boyfriend justin thompson was talking to detectives, telling them he was home the weekend kelli disappeared. >> he was not where he said. we checked his phone. everything checked out with justin. >> justin told detectives something else, another name to check out. when he and kelli visited froggy bottoms the week before she disappeared they met a chatty guy who worked there named nick holbert. >> he started talking to us. i get vibz vibes from people sometimes. i could see it.
adamant about it. i'm not going to tell her no a thousand times on text message. >> kelli made it safely to the bar where she texted justin throughout the night, but then there was the last odd text he received. justin was sure he had something to do with her disappearance and sent the text to cover his tracks. detectives went to froggy bottoms where they found nick holbert. they discovered he was down on his luck living in the woods behind the bar. they searched his campsite and his car. not one clue. holbert also agreed to an interview at the police station where he told detectives, yes, he picked up kelli on friday, the 13th, and later dropped her off at the entrance to her apartment complex. >> since friday night, no contact with her whatsoever, you don't know where she is at? >> no. >> what do you know about her? >> nothing, really. i've known her for, what, six